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Trump and the Rule of Law
In the late 1990s, when I was in graduate school in Canada, there was an ongoing debate about what it meant to be a Canadian. Some of this soul-searching can be attributed to the fallout of the failed 1995 Quebec referendum. It was also a product of Canadian’s reflecting on how it should deal with…
Myth vs. Fact
I am continually amazed by the number of people that continue to push a demonstrably false narrative about the separation of families at the border and the Obama administration. It is true that under President Obama kids were separated from their parents, but this was not the de facto policy. Even if the previous administration…
I Must Be Confused
I guess I must be confused on June 18, 2018 Secretary Kirstjen Nielson tweeted the following: But, if there was no policy of separating families at the border, then why was it necessary for the President to sign an Executive Order reversing the policy —a policy which presumably came about by a previous order from…
Trump Lies (about the dairy tariffs)
One of the things that has irritated me about the news coverage of the Trump administration is the lack of journalistic fact checking. I don’t mean the type of fact checking that asks “Can we confirm that so-and-so said x?”, but the fact checking that asks “Was what so-and-so said true?”. It’s the kind of…